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Nexus Data Center (Hubbard)

Nexus Data Center (Hubbard)

Announced
Probable

Jurisdiction: US — Texas (ERCOT)

2,000-acre site between Highway 171 and County Road 3369 on the outskirts of Hubbard, Hill County, Texas.

Capacity
612 MW basis: unspecified
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

58.5 /100
58.5/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: manual

Schedule

60 /100
60/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Capital baseline 40 Nexus Data Center (Hubbard) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Nexus Data Center (Hubbard) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Nexus Data Center (Hubbard) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Nexus Data Center (Hubbard) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Announcement Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-11-20).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Nexus Data Center (Hubbard) Newest schedule evidence is 2025-12-02 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

  2. Energization

    Expected
    1 revision

    Energization · Expected:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Nexus Data Centers
Developer
AirJoule Technologies
Utility Provider

Sources & citations

Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.

  1. AirJoule Technologies (GlobeNewswire) · Dec 2, 2025 · backs: expected date

    https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/12/02/3197885/0/en/AirJoule-Technologies-Identifies-Nexus-Data-Centers-as-AI-Hyperscale-Developer-and-Advances-Existing-MOU-Toward-First-Deployment-of-Onsite-Water-Purchase-Agreement-Using-Waste-Heat.html

  2. Data Center Dynamics · Dec 3, 2025 · backs: capacity mw

    https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/600mw-natural-gas-powered-data-center-campus-proposed-in-hubbard-texas/

  3. Hillsboro Reporter · Nov 27, 2025 · backs: actual date

    https://hillsbororeporter.com/nexus-lays-out-hubbard-data-center-plan-p31318-54.htm

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. · Data Center Dynamics